New curriculum = no homework?

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Longfellow used Lexia

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^uses

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Why even hire/pay teachers if this is the new approach? Any bum off the street could oversee Lexia, read from the new curriculum script, and watch kids take online tests.

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There was some study saying HW wasn't useful. Now this of course makes no sense to any of us where kids play sports or do instruments who know that practice helps ingrain things but so it is.

We were at a middle of the road good ES and they did away with HW after DC2’s K or 1st year. “HW” was to read - but there was no reading log to actually help enforce it - and do that awful math website which was such a waste of time we stopped doing it entirely. So no HW.

DC2 is now in middle in honors classes - again a middle “good” HS. Has HW about never as it is always enough that he can do it in advisory. HS AP or IB classes will be a rude awakening

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Anonymous wrote:Why even hire/pay teachers if this is the new approach? Any bum off the street could oversee Lexia, read from the new curriculum script, and watch kids take online tests.

Many bums still use the Pixel Art graphs from Gatehouse during COVID for math assignments. Tests are online for math and assignments are online. In Elementary the boring Social Studies slides from the Covid years are still being used. They harp about screen time yet use screens all day.

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Anonymous wrote:Why even hire/pay teachers if this is the new approach? Any bum off the street could oversee Lexia, read from the new curriculum script, and watch kids take online tests.

Many bums still use the Pixel Art graphs from Gatehouse during COVID for math assignments. Tests are online for math and assignments are online. In Elementary the boring Social Studies slides from the Covid years are still being used. They harp about screen time yet use screens all day.

I teach 6th. My tech use has gone down dramatically since starting benchmark. The only things my kids use computers for during LA is writing their final essay. Lexia and ST Math are usually done during our intervention block but not daily. My math assignments are 90 percent paper pencil. Once in awhile, I will have an online assignment during stations. SS is 90 paper pencil. Sometimes have primary sources to look at online.

I guess the gist is, if your kid is spending MOST of their day online, that is a teacher issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Why even hire/pay teachers if this is the new approach? Any bum off the street could oversee Lexia, read from the new curriculum script, and watch kids take online tests.

Many bums still use the Pixel Art graphs from Gatehouse during COVID for math assignments. Tests are online for math and assignments are online. In Elementary the boring Social Studies slides from the Covid years are still being used. They harp about screen time yet use screens all day.

I teach 6th. My tech use has gone down dramatically since starting benchmark. The only things my kids use computers for during LA is writing their final essay. Lexia and ST Math are usually done during our intervention block but not daily. My math assignments are 90 percent paper pencil. Once in awhile, I will have an online assignment during stations. SS is 90 paper pencil. Sometimes have primary sources to look at online.

I guess the gist is, if your kid is spending MOST of their day online, that is a teacher issue.

I'm glad to hear this. Sad about what's going on in my kid's school, but happy it's not county-wide policy.

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This totally varies by school and sometimes also by teacher. It is not consistent county-wide. Our ES has regular LA homework, but it only started with the new curriculum. We had zero with the old LA curriculum.

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I wish there was more focus on standardizing homework and screen policies. It seems like some schools (at least at the ES level) really excel and others just settle for the bare minimum.

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Anonymous wrote:Homework improves learning:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1228867.page

Why is FCPS abandoning a practice which has been proven to improve student's learning? (it is not difficult to figure out)

It has been proven to NOT improve learning.

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Anonymous wrote:Why even hire/pay teachers if this is the new approach? Any bum off the street could oversee Lexia, read from the new curriculum script, and watch kids take online tests.

Because that’s a mere fraction of the job?

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Anonymous wrote:What's frustrating is some schools have it and some don't. I can't understand why principals don't hold their staff to a higher standard.

Well if the standard is to not give it, obviously teachers don’t want to get in trouble. And why would principals go against their own bosses?

Shouldn't the standard be to push every child to reach their full potential? The lack of homework is just a symptom of the general lack of rigor.

Quite a few of the kids in my class don’t do the work assigned, so they would never do homework. If you want homework, buy a workbook on Amazon for $10.

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Anonymous wrote:This push for homework is pretty crazy. Kids don't need it, and if ppl say ot prepared them for tons in MS and HS, my question is why should they get tons at all?

Kids do need homework. In grade school, homework teaches children to manage their time and to manage their homework, to remember to bring it home and then bring it to school and turn it in. It also teaches them concepts/gives them practice. In middle and high school, homework gives practice of concepts that they learn in class.

Kids who play a sport, play an instrument, or have a hobby know that the more time you put in, the more lessons or classes you take, the more practice you do, the better you are. But somehow we don't apply that thought to homework anymore. And academically, it shows.

Homework is how I got out of a working class family and into college. The repetition/reinforcement provided by homework made all the difference both in learning and in school grades. Cancelling homework is really a way to trap people into the working class. Well off families still will supplement for their kids outside school, but working class families cannot afford to supplement (because working class parents have to focus on basics - having food, clothing, and shelter). That said, it IS important that homework be corrected & returned to the students, and also important that homework NOT be a significant part of any student’s grade.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's frustrating is some schools have it and some don't. I can't understand why principals don't hold their staff to a higher standard.

Well if the standard is to not give it, obviously teachers don’t want to get in trouble. And why would principals go against their own bosses?

Shouldn't the standard be to push every child to reach their full potential? The lack of homework is just a symptom of the general lack of rigor.

Quite a few of the kids in my class don’t do the work assigned, so they would never do homework. If you want homework, buy a workbook on Amazon for $10.

Wow

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's frustrating is some schools have it and some don't. I can't understand why principals don't hold their staff to a higher standard.

Well if the standard is to not give it, obviously teachers don’t want to get in trouble. And why would principals go against their own bosses?

Shouldn't the standard be to push every child to reach their full potential? The lack of homework is just a symptom of the general lack of rigor.

Quite a few of the kids in my class don’t do the work assigned, so they would never do homework. If you want homework, buy a workbook on Amazon for $10.

If homework were routinely assigned and corrected, peer pressure might change that. But 8 guess we'll never know.